{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/indictments-procedure-amendment-rules-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/indictments-procedure-amendment-rules-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1738",
  "legislation_title": "The Indictments (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/indictments-procedure-amendment-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Rule 5 of the Indictments (Procedure) Rules 1971 shall be amended by substituting for paragraph (1) the following new paragraph —\n“(1) Subject to the provisions of this rule, a bill of indictment shall be preferred —\n(a) where a defendant has been committed for trial, within a period of 28 days commencing with the date of committal, or\n(b) where a notice of transfer has been given under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987, within a period of 28 days commencing with the date on which notice is given.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1971/2084, as amended by S.I. 1983/284."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1987 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1738/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:56:55.934668+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}